Oracle Virtualization
Backed by affordable enterprise support for hybrid environments, Oracle Virtualization reduces operation and support costs while increasing IT efficiency and agility—on premises and in the cloud.
Use the world’s most popular cross-platform virtualization software on your desktop and easily deploy to any cloud.
Oracle Virtualization is designed for hybrid cloud
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Streamline cloud implementations
Leverage modern cloud virtualization and increase ROI with open source solutions that have enterprise-grade support.
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Explore microVMs and security
Learn about the speed and security of lightweight Kata Containers as compared to other containers such as Docker containers.
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Maximize your budget
Utilize a modern, low-overhead hypervisor to minimize infrastructure and software licensing costs.
Oracle Virtualization
Modern, open architecture with leading performance
Open source KVM environment and oVirt-based management with enterprise-grade performance and support from Oracle. Included with Oracle Linux Premier Support.
Features
- Open source, optimized hypervisor
- Simplified management with Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
- Designed for hybrid cloud
- Easy to move VMs to cloud
- Security updates without rebooting
- Hard partitioning for Oracle Software
Develop on any desktop, deploy to any cloud
Award-winning open source desktop virtualization software makes it quick and easy to operate secure, multiplatform operating systems on a single workstation and deploy applications to remote workers or any cloud securely.
Features
- Run multiple operating systems on one desktop
- Choose Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris, or Mac OS X
- Easily create a multiplatform DevTest environment
- Quickly export and import VMs to and from cloud
- Increase security with 256-bit data encryption
- Run legacy applications on modern hardware
- Secure app deployments for remote workers
Speed of containers with the isolation of VMs
Kata Containers is part of Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment and is an Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide isolation using hardware virtualization technology.
Features
- Each pod runs on a dedicated kernel
- Consistent performance
- Complies with Open Container Initiative
- Fast boot time
Virtualization for UNIX workloads
Efficient, enterprise-class virtualization capabilities in Oracle SPARC Servers—together with the Oracle Solaris operating system—allow you to create up to 128 virtual servers on one system.
Features
- Consolidation of up to 128 virtual machines
- Flexible and secure live migration between hosts
- Dynamic resource management
- Redundant virtual networks and disks
Oracle Virtualization customer successes
Customers across a variety of industries worldwide are succeeding with Oracle virtualization software. Oracle virtualization fully supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, delivering more efficient performance, simplified management, and lower TCO.
Cisco cryptographic services team reduces cost of virtualization with Oracle Linux KVM
Benefits of Oracle Virtualization
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Leverage latest cloud virtualization for on-premises deployments
KVM is a hypervisor in the mainline Linux kernel that can simplify the deployment of virtual machines in hybrid clouds.
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Increase security
Automatically patch your hypervisors with zero downtime.
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Secure application access for remote workers
Oracle VirtualBox can help provide secure remote access to restricted applications while protecting classified data.
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Migrating to Oracle Virtualization
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Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager: Importing Virtual Machines from VMware vCenter
Importing a virtual machine (VM) from VMware to Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager can be performed using native tools, such as the virt-v2v command-line tool.
Migrating a virtual machine from VMware to Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
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Migrate a Microsoft Windows Virtual Machine to Oracle Linux KVM by virt-v2v
Step-by-step guide on how to migrate a Microsoft Windows virtual machine from a local OVA file to Oracle Linux KVM and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager by leveraging the open source utility virt-v2v.
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Partner's spotlight: Cloudbase Coriolis
Cloudbase Coriolis performs software-defined migrations of virtual workloads among different clouds and virtualization solutions at scale, while also supporting disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) scenarios for moving from traditional virtualization technologies to a modern cloud infrastructure.
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Coriolis Plugin
Oracle expands Oracle Linux KVM server virtualization solution with Oracle Linux 8 support
John Priest, Director of Product Management
The Oracle Linux and Virtualization team is pleased to announce the release of Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager version 4.4. Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is now included with Oracle Linux 8, supports Oracle Linux 8 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) compute hosts, and is based on the 4.4 release of the open source oVirt project. This server virtualization management platform can be easily deployed to configure, monitor, and manage an Oracle Linux KVM environment with enterprise-grade performance and support from Oracle.
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Community forums
Open source virtualization for the modern enterprise
- Tux Tech Talks
- Migrating VMware vSphere to Oracle Linux KVM
- Oracle Linux KVM and Virtualization Manager training videos
- Deploy and Manage Oracle Linux KVM in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Migrate Oracle VM to Oracle Linux KVM
- Ansible with Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager as a VDI solution
Technical and Business Briefs
Get started with Oracle Virtualization
Download Oracle Linux KVM
Download Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
Oracle Linux is free to download and distribute and includes KVM.
Download Oracle VirtualBox
Available for free for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris x86 platforms.
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